Like Humans – Scientists Discover That Rats Have an Imagination
As human beings, our lives are intertwined with our thoughts, whether we’re contemplating dinner options or indulging in memories of our recent beach getaway. Interestingly,…
As human beings, our lives are intertwined with our thoughts, whether we’re contemplating dinner options or indulging in memories of our recent beach getaway. Interestingly,…
Why Adult Plasticity Matters Similar to how toddlers rapidly pick up languages during their formative years, our visual system too has its own “critical period”…
In order to examine play behaviors in animals like rats, scientists are required to be able to authentically simulate play-conducive environments in the laboratory. If…
A new study has demonstrated that rats are susceptible to infection with Alpha, Delta, and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Moreover,…
Fluffy rodents twice the size of a gray squirrel survived for tens of thousands of years, and then abruptly disappeared a few thousand years ago…
A new paper published September 17, 2019, in The Journal of Urban Ecology, published by Oxford University Press, finds that rats can be baited to,…
The Queen Charlotte Islands are a biodiverse archipelago and Parks Canada has been trying to restore the balance in the ecosystem by getting rid of…
Calling someone a dirty rat might not have the same impact it used to have because new research reveals that rats are more likely to…